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Articles Posted on 20 January 2009

McKinnon Is "Suicide Risk", Extradition Case Postponed

McKinnon Is "Suicide Risk", Extradition Case Postponed

News Security

The lawyers for Gary McKinnon have received a letter from the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, which says that Mr McKinnon would not be extradited until the DPP, Keir Starmer, considers his confessions. The British hacker, whom...


Cisco To Rival HP & IBM With Big Iron Virtualised Servers

Cisco To Rival HP & IBM With Big Iron Virtualised Servers

News Hardware

Network equipment giant Cisco Systems has confirmed that it will be releasing servers as the battle in the network segment switches from one to make tidy profits to one of survival as the recession bites hard. According to the...


Comment : Digging Into Intel's Latest CPU Price Cuts

Comment : Digging Into Intel's Latest CPU Price Cuts

News Hardware

Intel price cuts, whilst impressive, do not mean much especially if you are planning to build a system rather than upgrade an existing computer system. The semiconductor company has not cut the price of its higher priced, more...


Isle Of Man'ners Could Get Free MP3 Downloads

Isle Of Man'ners Could Get Free MP3 Downloads

News Security

Residents of the Isle of Man, a self-governing self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea, could get access to free music downloads if proposals to introduce a compulsory blanket licence are accepted. The...


Nokia's 5730 Xpressmusic Adds Keyboard, Removes Touchscreen

Nokia's 5730 Xpressmusic Adds Keyboard, Removes Touchscreen

News Mobile & Telco

Pictures of Nokia latest smartphone have leaked online and it looks that the Finnish manufacturer wants to cater for a more mainstream market with a more affordable, lower specced phone without any touchscreen but with the...


Children Spend 42 hours A Week In Front of Screens

Children Spend 42 hours A Week In Front of Screens

News Security

Raising concerns for parents, a research study has claimed that children in UK spend an average six hours in front of electronic screens.   A recent study by ChildWise, which included 1,800 children aged between five and...


Downadup Worm Affects More Than 10 million PCs Worldwide, Biggest Botnet Ever?

Downadup Worm Affects More Than 10 million PCs Worldwide, Biggest Botnet Ever?

News Security

January 2009 is shaping up to be one of the worst months ever as the Cornficker or Downadup worm is said to have infected more than 10 million computers worldwide and could become the biggest botnet network ever according to...


Rumour Mill : Vodafone UK To Get Palm Pre Exclusivity?

Rumour Mill : Vodafone UK To Get Palm Pre Exclusivity?

News Mobile & Telco

Echoing the speculations about who’ll offer the iPhone in UK last year, rumours are now swirling on the blogosphere about the prospective network provider of Palm Inc.’s much hyped handset, Palm Pre.  Vodafone...


Google Search Could Track Your Preferred Sites Soon

Google Search Could Track Your Preferred Sites Soon

News Hardware

Presenting a glimpse of future search techniques to the online community, Google is testing a new search feature that enables users to customize their searches by enlisting the preferred websites they would like to see in...


Intel New CULV Platform To Compete With AMD's Yukon & Atom

Intel New CULV Platform To Compete With AMD's Yukon & Atom

News Hardware

Things in the world of laptops are about to get a bit more complicated in the second quarter of the year as Intel introduces a brand new segment under the banner of "Consumer Ultra Low Voltage" or CULV. CULV laptops will be...


Youtube Set To Introduce "Download Video" Feature?

Youtube Set To Introduce "Download Video" Feature?

News Mobile & Telco

It seems that users may not need to rely on third party applications for grabbing video content on YouTube, as the Google owned company is experimenting with a video downloading feature.  However, as of now, the popular...


Tech Deals Put A Smile on UK PLC M&A Sector

Tech Deals Put A Smile on UK PLC M&A Sector

News Hardware

According to recent reports from the analyst firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), UK technology sector has steered deftly in terms of mergers and acquisitions during last year.  The mergers and acquisitions involving UK...


Nokia's 5800 Xpressmusic Will Come With Free Content And Small Prints

Nokia's 5800 Xpressmusic Will Come With Free Content And Small Prints

News Mobile & Telco

Following the classic first come first serve notion, Nokia has announced that the customers who are first to grab its Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone when it comes on Friday 23rd January will obtain some special content...


Apple Delivers 500 million Downloads In Six Months

Apple Delivers 500 million Downloads In Six Months

News Mobile & Telco

The online marketplace for iPhone and iPod applications, dubbed as “Apple App Store”, scaled new heights by reaching the 500 million downloads mark and apparently the holiday season played a major role in achieving...


IBM Sets Its Sights On Cloud Computing With LotusLive

IBM Sets Its Sights On Cloud Computing With LotusLive

News Cloud

In a bid to take on the tech giants Microsoft and Google in the SaaS domain, IBM Corp. has announced the release of an online version of its signature Lotus software.  The new web-based service, tagged as...


Microsoft Makes Old Software Run On Vista With MED-V Beta

Microsoft Makes Old Software Run On Vista With MED-V Beta

News Hardware

Microsoft is betting on Vista as a long running platform as it pushes the beta version of its desktop virtualisation software, designed to run legacy Windows apps on Vista, out of its virtual doors in Redmond. Microsoft...

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